The High Court has ruled that it is legal for UK employers to force workers to retire at the age of 65. In the UK, a worker can see their employment end at the age of 65 without any redundancy payment - even if they do not want to retire.

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Grammar Girl here. In today's episode we're going to look at, examine, and explore redundancies, tautologies and other superfluous excesses.

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French workers don't take lay offs lying down! Eight On!

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A US construction equipment firm has agreed to pay extra compensation to French workers who had threatened to explode gas canisters at their plant.

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Getting Your REWARD - A Key element in Success

There are three key elements in any form of SUCCESS: recognition of your talent and contribution, respect for it and finally the reward to go with it.

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I read this week that even John Cleese is having to shelve temporarily his and his daughter's project to get "A Fish Called Wanda" on stage because he has to come up with a huge amount of money monthly for his recent ex wife.

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n the February case of Roberts v Aegon UK Corporate Services Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal confirmed that a tribunal is entitled to differentiate between a final salary pension scheme and a money purchase scheme when awarding compensation to an unfairly dismissed employee.  …

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It's not what U.S. taxpayers want to hear from the man charged with monitoring how their money was spent in Iraq: "Billions of dollars were wasted in the Iraqi reconstruction enterprise," said Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.

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Patching up the US military's nuclear arsenal was delayed by at least a year - because they forgot how to manufacture one crucial part with the codename Fogbank.

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A tipster tells us that Yahoo plans to cut 3,500 jobs, chiefly in sales and finance, on December 10 — while keeping plans for a multimillion-dollar holiday party days before the cuts:

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It can be extremely difficult to focus on the good when, seemingly, bad things are happening in your life. However you can train your mind to focus on the good things in your life rather than dwelling on the bad.

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With redundances looming, trophy wives and husbands start planning to cash in and get out

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I know a handful of people here and they have been mooting this as being a real possibility since the start of the year. Time to update those CVs now I guess guys...Michael, you still owe me those drinks and I don't give a %#$! if your sorry ass is out on the street...;-P

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Yahoo! president Sue Decker believes her company is "moving from catch-up mode to a mode of true differentiation." But its fourth quarter profits were down 23 per cent, and it will soon axe seven per cent of its work force.

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One of the painful consequences of the weak US dollar: Rolls Royce suffers from expenses in Pounds, Euros and other strong currencies, but derives over 80% of its revenues in USD.

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"A number of bridge collapses have taught engineers painful lessons about the frailty of bridges and the punishment they take from heavy trucks, strong tides and even the errant barge that slams into bridge supports, according to engineers, bridge builders and academics. The cha …

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Roughly 80 to 100 employees of Sony Computer Entertainment of America's Foster City headquarters were laid off today, Kotaku has learned from a source who was among those asked to hand in their badge and keys before leaving the premises.

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Infamous car parts manufacturer Tristar is screwing its workers again, this time picking on a dying man. John Beaven put in 43 years of loyal service to the company, but now that he is on his death bed with cancer, the company is refusing to offer him a redundancy package:

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With a card and a redundancy payment.

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Did you know that to achieve 99.9% availability on a single server, the server cannot be down for more than 8.76 hours per year.Standard approaches for increasing server availability is to increase redundancy so that if one component fails, other components can be put into servic …

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Federal inspectors have found that a Big Dig tunnel ceiling that collapsed in July and killed a motorist was designed with a smaller margin of safety than other tunnel ceilings in America, according to a report obtained by the Boston Globe.

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Ford is cutting 14,000 white-collar jobs in North America as it tries to turn round its flagging business. It is also to close 16 factories by 2008, instead of shutting 12 by 2012 as previously announced.

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We had a power cut yesterday and i could do nothing while the power came back on

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What to do about Redundancy in the Vine?

lately, i've been noticing a lot more redundancy in the vine - like three articles in a row seeding to three different generic stories about the mohammed cartoon uproar.

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